BLT Soup

I want to come over here, move right over here, and start the pot for our BLT soup

Now I've got a half a cup of diced bacon. I'm going to throw this in here and just let it start browning

All right, we're going to let that brown and let all that pork fat come out of there

All right, now our bacon is browning, and you can see the fat coming out of the bacon

So y'all forgive me when you see me do this. But I'm going to add just a couple of tablespoons of butter

just to make sure our soup is nice and rich. All right, now I'm going to add a half a cup

of chopped green onions or scallions. whatever you call them. The next thing I'm gonna do is

I gonna add a half a cup of self flour Now when I say self flour that not like the flour that you would use to make biscuits or cakes with

And it's an extra fine flour. I don't know if you can see how fine it is on my finger

And this flour will not lump on you like a regular flour will

All right, so I'm gonna add three cups of shredded lettuce. All right, now we're going to add our flour

And remember, the name of this is instant blending flour. That's what you would want to look for in your grocery store

Toss that over our ingredients. And in this other pot, I've got three and a half cups of chicken stock that's boiling

And now we're just going to take this. In fact, I think I'm going to get a rag and move this pot closer to me

And I'm just going to add the chicken stock. All right, now I'm going to come over here and I'm going to add an eighth of a teaspoon

of grated nutmeg. That's not enough to say, oh my goodness, I taste nutmeg, but it's just

enough to give it a nice little, just a nice little underlying flavor. And I'm going to add

about an eighth of a teaspoon of red pepper flakes, just to give it a little kick

And then I'm going to add one cup of diced fresh tomatoes. So there you have it

BLT soup. Look how good that looks. All right, I've got one more ingredient

and that's some heavy cream because you can see that that flour made it nice and thick

Now, if you don't want the cream, you could always use a chicken broth. So you can put this in the

crock pot now Let it stay on warm until everybody home and ready to eat Now I going to ladle some of this up We got the B

we've got the L, and we've even got the T. But what do you eat on a BLT? Mayonnaise is right

So I've got some mayonnaise here and I've got some sour cream

Just to cut the richness of that mayonnaise, I'm going to blend a little sour cream in it

and garnish my soup with that. A few green onions. And then, of course, the last thing is just a little bacon

and look how delicious that looks. You're going to be surprised and amazed when you taste that soup and find out how delicious BLT soup is